Books with author Jennifer Cua

Tech is constantly progressing and changing. But have you ever stopped and wondered how it all started? In Phonograph to Streaming Music, discover how the phonograph evolved into the music streaming services we have today. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage young readers to think, create, guess, and ask questions about this technology. Book includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biographies, and sidebars.

A unique overview of the fashion and dress, diet, hygiene, medicine, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Chinese. This entertaining yet informative book details practices that may seem peculiar to todays students, while respectfully contextualizing another culture and time, especially one as ancient, rich, and foundational as that of ancient China. Readers are drawn in by the sometimes distasteful detailsthe fun gross-out factorbut also gain an appreciation of the inventiveness, sophistication, and practicality of the ancient Chinese. Overall, this title is a lively exploration of the scientific and cultural practices of a pre-modern civilization.

While plays are printed works and are therefore certainly able to be read, they dont truly come alive until they are performed, with actors breathing life into the words on the page. After reading this engaging and informative book, young readers may well want to write and perform their own creative works. Happily, how to do just that is spelled out in the book itself. Also included are excerpts from famous and not-so-famous playsall to educate, entertain, and inspire young readers, including those students who may well be budding playwrights.

Ruth is just your average girl with average problems. Her math grades are slipping, her band is struggling to prepare for their upcoming performance, and her mom is a terrible cook. Her world doesn't even seem to notice that she is in it. Luckily, that's all about to change, but only if she accepts her fate...Join Ruth as she journeys to a fantastical world filled with gentle giants, evil vagabonds, and ancient folklore - all while trying to figure out if it's all a dream. Can Ruth fulfill the ancient prophecy, or will she be stuck in this far away circus land forever? Find out what happens when tiny Ruth wishes on a star.

The sign on the rusty fence read: No Trespassing! Violators will be shot and shot again if they live. Lake Lenape Amusement Park management. Maybe Billy and Sam would have chosen another way to spend their day instead of sneaking into the abandoned amusement park if they knew why the park was closed. Owners of the park had built it over a Lenape Indian burial ground. The park closed with a reputation of being a place where children were killed when all the rides, games and swimming pools promised a day of fun and excitement. Peering through the a hole in the broken fence, Billy and Sam saw rust crusted carnival rides covered with overgrown vines, fading exotic signs and empty food stands. Surely they would find treasures left behind when the park closed. The forest jungle cast a shadow over the decaying building of the House of Mirrors and Horrors. What a wonderful place to make a clubhouse. But what of the watchman and his posted warning if they were caught? Yes, the House of Mirrors provided more than a boy’s club house and mirror images making little boys big and lean or short and fat. In this house there were special mirrors, mirrors showing good and evil, young and old, and mirrors to a world of carnival of spirits where dead children play. There was one way into the House of Mirrors and Horrors, but no way out for Billy and Sam.